From Ancient Greek μετωνυμία (metōnumía, “change of name”) (synchronically, meatonaime (“metonymy”) + -ach (adjectival suffix)), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).
meatonaimeach (genitive singular masculine meatonaimigh, genitive singular feminine meatonaimí, plural meatonaimeacha, comparative meatonaimí)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | meatonaimeach | mheatonaimeach | meatonaimeacha; mheatonaimeacha² | |
| Vocative | mheatonaimigh | meatonaimeacha | ||
| Genitive | meatonaimí | meatonaimeacha | meatonaimeach | |
| Dative | meatonaimeach; mheatonaimeach¹ |
mheatonaimeach; mheatonaimigh (archaic) |
meatonaimeacha; mheatonaimeacha² | |
| Comparative | níos meatonaimí | |||
| Superlative | is meatonaimí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| meatonaimeach | mheatonaimeach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||